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AWS announces up to $1 billion in cloud credits to accelerate U.S. Intelligence Community modernization
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Intelligence Community Accelerated Modernization Framework (ICAMF), a landmark program committing up to $1 billion in available credits to accelerate cloud migration and modernization across the U.S. Intelligence Community. ICAMF provides outcome-based credits through October 2030, giving Intelligence Community agencies a compelling, long-term incentive to accelerate their cloud journey.
The ICAMF removes a significant financial barrier to cloud adoption by offering meaningful credits tied to successful migration and modernization outcomes. By aligning investment with results, the program compresses modernization timelines and enables the Intelligence Community to operate at the speed their missions demand. ICAMF reflects the leading role of AWS as the preferred cloud partner for the Intelligence Community, providing the infrastructure, tools, and economic framework to modernize at scale.
Program overview
The ICAMF establishes a framework within the existing AWS contract with the U.S. Intelligence Community that provides credits for qualified workloads migrating to AWS. The program commits up to $1 billion in available credits and will remain active through October 2030.
Eligible participants include all Intelligence Community agencies operating under the existing AWS contract seeking to migrate and modernize workloads on AWS.
What this means for the Intelligence Community
America’s intelligence agencies operate in an increasingly complex threat environment that demands rapid adaptation, advanced analytics, and seamless information sharing. Although the U.S. Intelligence Community was an early adopter of cloud computing, portions of its vital mission still rely on legacy on-premises infrastructure that limits agility and creates barriers to adopting transformative technologies like generative AI, advanced machine learning, and real-time data fusion.
ICAMF directly addresses these challenges by:
- Reducing the cost of modernization: Outcome-based credits based on post-migration value dramatically lower the financial barrier to moving workloads to the cloud.
- Accelerating migration timelines: With up to $1 billion in committed credits available through 2030, agencies can plan and execute ambitious modernization roadmaps with confidence.
- Enabling mission-critical capabilities: Cloud migration unlocks access to AWS’s full portfolio of services—including generative AI, high-performance computing, advanced analytics, and edge computing—across all classification levels.
- Aligning investment with outcomes: Credits are tied to successful migration and modernization, ensuring that AWS’s investment drives real, measurable results.
Supporting the Intelligence Community’s modernization priorities
The ICAMF supports the Intelligence Community’s strategic priorities to modernize IT infrastructure, improve data interoperability, and adopt advanced technologies at pace with evolving threats. The program enables agencies to leverage the most advanced cloud capabilities while achieving meaningful cost efficiencies—delivering improved mission outcomes with the speed and agility that national security demands.
Commitment to National Security customers
AWS is unwaveringly committed to customers in the federal, defense, and national security agencies, and today supports more than 15,000 government agencies around the globe. AWS brings nearly a decade of experience supporting some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive workloads and breaking barriers for our customers. AWS was the first cloud provider to build infrastructure specifically for government (2011), support classified workloads (2014), and achieve accreditation across all U.S. government data classifications (2017).
This commitment continues to grow. In August 2025, the U.S. General Services Administration announced a OneGov Agreement with AWS to provide up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training for federal agencies through 2028. In October 2025, AWS launched a second Secret Cloud Region, AWS Secret-West, further expanding classified computing capabilities. In November 2025, Amazon announced it will invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies. And in February 2026, AWS announced up to $100 million in federal credits through the Warfighter Capability Accelerator and Genesis Accelerator initiatives to support national security and scientific missions.
The ICAMF builds on this momentum—representing AWS’s largest single investment in Intelligence Community cloud adoption and underscoring our long-term collaboration with the agencies protecting America’s national security.
Getting started
Intelligence Community agencies operating under the existing AWS contract can engage with their AWS account teams to learn more about ICAMF eligibility, program mechanics, and how to qualify workloads for migration credits. Enablement materials, including detailed program guidance and customer-facing collateral, will be available shortly.
Learn more about AWS for the Intelligence Community and how ICAMF can accelerate your cloud modernization journey.